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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in e-learning are enabling people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive need for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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